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SPORTS PEOPLE: BASEBALL; Rose Sues Financier

PETE ROSE, the career hits leader, has joined a Virginia Beach millionaire in a lawsuit contending that they were denied the money needed to keep their powerboat on the national racing circuit. Rose and ALAN R. FUENTES formed a team that won a national racing title in 1992 but has since run aground. Rose and Fuentes charged that a Cincinnati financier failed to deliver the cash to keep them operating. In a lawsuit filed last month in Virginia Beach Circuit Court, the Hit King Racing Team Inc. charged that JAMES R. TUTTLE SR. and his Ingelheim Financial Group reneged on a promise to give the team $65,000. Without the money, the boat's engines were repossessed and the team couldn't race this year, the lawsuit said. (AP)

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A version of this article appears in print on January 1, 1994, on Page 1001037 of the National edition with the headline: SPORTS PEOPLE: BASEBALL; Rose Sues Financier. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe